Not Drinking or Dancing

/ Masha Tupitsyn / Misc
I keep thinking how ethics is this weird word no one uses or thinks about anymore.

Green

Totally Alive Women

/ Masha Tupitsyn / Misc
Not choosing to love makes things harder. And people choose to make things harder all the time.

Not Fucking Narcissistic Melancholics

/ Masha Tupitsyn / Misc
In Thief, Okla tells Frank: “Lie to no one.” Frank, a master thief, is asking Okla, a master thief, about love.

Force Ourselves to Meet

/ Masha Tupitsyn / Misc
Yesterday I kept asking myself, “How do you build trust online?” You can’t.

Forget the Other

/ Masha Tupitsyn / Misc
On my last night in Germany, a young woman who came to my opening, was dancing on the dance floor at the bar we all went to after.

Words Know Everything

/ Masha Tupitsyn / Misc
Last night I went out to eat dinner alone in this quiet city.

Freud’s Talking About Mourning

/ Masha Tupitsyn / Misc
The truth is that we cannot forgo anything, but merely exchange one thing for another

Love as Fantasy

The Christmas Blues

Comfort the Dead

The Faithful

/ Masha Tupitsyn / Misc
The faithful make a certain kind of work that is radically different from the work the faithless/hopeless make.

Where You Find It

/ Masha Tupitsyn / Misc
If you can’t love, if you don’t choose love, if you don’t return to love, if you are afraid of love, you are dangerous.

Advertising, a Terrible Influence

/ Masha Tupitsyn / Misc
The dark-haired Judy is literally ridiculed/erased and replaced by the stereotype and figment of blondeness, Madeline. One woman carries/performs the split of the two inside her.

The Wrong Time Is Actually the Wrong Person

/ Masha Tupitsyn / Misc
In the case of Broadcast News (1987), the movie’s single time-jump, “7 years later,” fails to remedy the problem of ill-timed love.

Disgusting Yuppie City

/ Masha Tupitsyn / Misc
god forbid there be any open space anywhere in New York

Not Knowing the Reason

/ Masha Tupitsyn / Misc
On Monday, a new friend from Rome writes me a letter upon her return. In it she says: “Destiny is a thing.”

Pleasures, Comforts Mysteries

/ Masha Tupitsyn / Misc
It reminds me that anything is possible with the right person.

Hard Bodies

/ Masha Tupitsyn / Misc
in the 80s, america battled precarity. no one ever got hurt onscreen.

The Whole World Suffers

/ Masha Tupitsyn / Misc
When a man is scared, the whole world suffers, not just women.

Moon Gazing

/ Masha Tupitsyn / Misc
Gotta get my mojo back. Everything was so lit up tonight.

Edit Together

Where Men Are Concerned

/ Masha Tupitsyn / Misc
I thought maybe the rewards and punishments would even out but I later realized that they would not.

Everyone’s Great Utopia

Whom Are You Preserving in Alcohol?

/ Masha Tupitsyn / Misc
Belief in this world. I don’t think I have it anymore. But I know that talking to my parents two nights ago at their place in Paris, and marveling at how much they still love each other, made me feel better.

Searching

Crying on the Plane

/ Masha Tupitsyn / Misc
Every time I fly now, either for work or pleasure, I am reminded of how emotionally homeless I feel and want to cry (or do) on the plane.

Seat 70

/ Masha Tupitsyn / Misc
I had a dream about you last night. We signfied as lovers. As together, only there wasn’t any actual togetherness.

Love the 90s

/ Masha Tupitsyn / Misc
Think about seeing Julia Roberts on the red carpet in the late 80s and early 90s in a suit with no makeup on, and that was OK.